June 2007/5
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AmWINS Group, Inc, the private equity backed-US wholesale broker linked with a move for London market broker Besso Group, has bought The American Equity Underwriters, Inc, (AEU) and refinanced its debt to fund further “strategic acquisitions”.
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Andrew Carrier, active underwriter of Kiln Ltd’s catastrophe Syndicate 557 and the reinsurance division of its Syndicate 510, is quitting the Lloyd’s insurer.
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Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has said it will mandate the use of the Electronic Claims File (ECF) for all in-scope claims from the Lloyd’s market as of 1 January 2008.
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ACE Tempest Re Group, the reinsurance arm of ACE Ltd, has established an underwriting presence in Lloyd’s Chinese operation.
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After more than five years absence from the London market, Tony Taylor returned to Lloyd’s with the arrival of Montpelier Re’s £47mn non-marine property and engineering Syndicate 5151.
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The announcement in Parliament last week that the Government will examine changes to the 1982 Lloyd’s Act is likely to encourage some frenetic lobbying.
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Ousted American International Group (AIG) supremo Maurice “Hank” Greenberg has countersued his former employer claiming the US giant’s board and new management are “seriously damaging” the company.
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Insurers, brokers and rating agencies have put their weight behind legislation that proposes an extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) from a temporary programme to a more permanent ten-year facility.
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Proposed start-up Leinster Group Ltd has refused to acknowledge defeat but the prospect of a launch on the Lloyd’s platform looks bleak after the Society rejected its application.
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Swiss (re)insurer Zurich Financial Services Group (ZFS) announced the establishment of a new division for its direct business in Europe effective 1 July, with a subsequent internal management re-shuffle.
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CastlePoint Insurance Company, the US subsidiary of Bermudian (re)insurer, Castlepoint Holdings Ltd announced a risk sharing agreement with a Florida-based workers’ compensation and commercial auto specialist, AequiCap Insurance Company and its subsidiary
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The board of Fairfax Financial Holdings controlled reinsurer Odyssey Re has authorised a share buyback programme, the company announced.
